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Preschool Language & Literacy > Phonological Awareness > See How It Works
Watch this kindergarten teacher demonstrate an effective classroom activity for teaching phonemic awareness, including a brief lesson on letter-sound correspondence.
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Preschool Language & Literacy > Interactive & Dialogic Reading > See How It Works
Teachers need to know what to look for when selecting books for interactive reading. Hear an administrator describe how she trains teachers to make book selections. Review the program's Required...
RtI Math > Implementation > See How It Works
Pennsylvania Secretary of Education, Gerald Zahorchak, describes how Response to Intervention has served to align the state's reform and improvement framework. In Pennsylvania, RtI is known as RtII...
Erin Lolich, an administrator in the Tigard-Tualatin School District and the director of professional development in RtI for 32 school districts, describes the types of training, coaching, and...
Principal Deb Chiodo from Cornell Elementary School describes her development as an instructional leader through the use of RtI. Systematic and regular grade-level meetings are the heart of the...
Wendy Robinson coordinates Heartland AEA's Instructional Decision Making project. She describes training experiences that are effective for communication, allocating intervention resources, and...
Principal Bobbie Lamond explains her role in the school's evolution of RtI. The sample material, RtI Implementation Self Report, is used to chart school progress. She also discusses the grade-level...
Lana Michelson, chief of Iowa's Bureau of Student and Family Support Services, and Eric Neessen, consultant for School Psychological Services, discuss Instructional Decision Making (IDM). IDM is a...
RtI Math > Intentional Teaching > See How It Works
A second-grade teacher demonstrates a lesson on subtraction with regrouping. Through small group instruction she differentiates for struggling students and provides immediate reteaching after...
In this Tier 3 intervention lesson, the instructor reteaches a lesson on place value after it is clear that students have not grasped the concept of bundling ones to form a ten. Students create...
A middle-school special education teacher demonstrates a lesson on solving two-step equations. She shows how to begin with concrete materials and then represents the same concepts on the SMART...
A fifth-grade teacher describes explicit step-by-step approaches to teaching division of fractions. She emphasizes vocabulary teaching, demonstration, scaffolding, partner sharing, and checking for...
